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Product Description: Throughout his life, Bennett Long pursues a vision that compels him to become a scientist and that transforms the everyday world into one of purity, beauty, and order, whose very allure lies in its unattainable ideal. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Product Description: Described by one reviewer as a future literary rival to Sagan and Hawkins, Alan Lightman has written a text for liberal arts students that promises to have a far reaching effect on the way the course is taught. The book is intended for the freshman-/sophomore- level course at liberal arts schools...read more

A leading astrophysicist summarizes the new theories of the origin of the universe and explains how they discredit older hypotheses, such as the 'Big Bang' theory

A fictional recreation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time follows the young Albert through 1905 Bern, Switzerland, as he sorts through the dreams that have persisted in his mind for several months.

Product Description: Origins reveals the human being within the scientist in a study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific process. Twenty-seven active cosmologists--including Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Vera Rubin, Allan Sandage, Margaret Geller, and Alan Guth--talk candidly about their childhoods and early influences, their motivations, prejudices, and worldviews...read more

The author offers a collection of essays that addresses questions ranging from why scientists do their most original work in their youth, and how progress has handicapped society to the physiology of a smile to the mysteries of the night sky